The aim of this publication is to collect the abstract and some of the papers discussed during the International & Interdisciplinary Conference “LGBTQI Empowering Realities Challenging Homophobia and Transphobia” .The final conference has been the last step of the project co-funded by the European Union and titled “Empowering LGT young people against violence a P2P model” (JUST/2011-2012/DAP/AG/3059). The partner of the project were: The Department of Psychology of the University of Turin, The School of Social Justice Of The University College Of Dublin, The School of Health and Social Work of the University of Hertfordshire, The Political Science and Sociology Faculty of The Complutense University of Madrid, The Life Quality National Association OZARA Slovenija, the Department of Humanistic Studies of The University of Naples “Federico II”.
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Authors: AA.VV.
Department of Psychology (2015)
© 2015 Dipartimento di Psicologia Università di Torino ISBN 978-88-905-24967
University of Turin, IT
Piera Brustia Elisa Marino Luca RollèUniversity of Naples, IT
Paolo Valerio Anna Lisa AmodeoUniversity of Hertfordshire, UK
Shula Ramon Julia Warrener
Complutense University of Madrid, ES
Eva Herrero Galiano David Berná Serna
Ozara Slovenija, SI
Rok Podkrajšek
University College Dublin, IR
Maureen Lyons Aideen Quilty Eva Gerino Silvia Abbà Valentina Battaglia Roberto Ceschina Cristina Comeglio Roberta Fazzino Alessandro Gullotta Silvia Vinotti Fabiana Arena Elena Berlingeri
SUMMARY ABSTRACT BOOK
LECTURES
Born this way? The Science of sexual orientation and its implications (Vittorio Lingiardi)
Gender variant people between pathologisation, social Stigma and Resilience (Paolo Valerio)
Symposium A
EMPOWERING LGT YOUNG PEOPLE AGAINST VIOLENCE: A PEER TO PEER MODEL.
Empowering LGBTQ people against violence: a p2p model. The Project Rollè L., Marino E., Gerino E., Brustia P.
Positive Action Promoting Change Quilty A.
Power to promote. LGBTQI empowerment
Amodeo A.L., Scandurra C., Picariello S., Rodriguez E., Monaco S., Valerio P.
Waves of Change: Peer to peer. About Resistance and strategies at the hetero-patriarchal violence in youth
Cabezas A., Barón S., Martínez Valle C., Cairo C., Lois M.
Evaluating the effectiveness of fostering empowerment and resilience strategies by young LGBT adults in a European action research
Ramon S., Warrener J.
Dissemination of the P2P LGT project Dobnik B.
Symposium B
CREATING AWARENESS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA: PATHS, PROJECTS, STUDIES AND EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES.
Local policies for LGBTQI young people equality and safety: the city of Torino LGBT office experience
Truppa G., Emprin R.
Tales and discrimination: an awareness path for children and their families Gullotta A., Gerino E.
Dancing princes and rugby princesses Multi-membership in small communities Montabone M.
A project of intervention against homophobic bullying to support the quality of relationships in the schools
Taurino A., De Caro M., Greco R., Serino C.,
Symposium C
GENDER STEREOTYPES, HETERONORMATIVITY AND HETEROSEXISM: GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES.
Objectification and gender stereotypes: the key role of mass media Rollero C., De Piccoli N.
Falletti E.
Are perceptual distorsions in political area consequences of gender stereotypes? Urea R.
On sexuation: how psychoanalysis can contribute to break with the idea of sexual norm Bolgiani P.
Painting by numbers: examining participants’ quantitative responses at pre, post and follow-up programme data collection stages concerning the impact of the P2P project
Lloyd M.
Symposium D
SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND SEXUAL IDENTITY: CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND STUDY CASES.
Lacanian Psychoanalytic clinical practice with queer transgenders Nicotra M.
A Psychoanalytical Lacanian clinical contribution against the stigma of pathologization Morrone S.
Multicausal discrimination: sexuality and social dynamics of European chub and chasers Florea M.M., Vasilescu V.C.
Information behaviour of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual (lgbt) Andres T., González-Teruel A.
Crucial moment Arzente G. F.
Symposium E
LGBTQI LIVES, IDENTITIES, EXPERIENCES AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS. Putting families of origin into the queer picture
Bertone C.
About gay-parenting: a study to explore social representations Rodriguez E., Cuccurullo A., De Simone G., Cesarano V.P.
The impact of homophobic and transphobic bullying on education and employment opportunities Rise E.,Formby E.
Symposium F
CHALLENGING HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA: FROM PROJECTS TO EMPOWERMENT.
LeCoseCambiano@Rome (ThingsChange@Rome):A project to Prevent Homophobic Bullying, Gender Segregation, and Gender Violence in Schools
Lingiardi V., Baiocco R., Nardelli N., Ioverno S., Tanzilli A., Nappa M.R., Orfano I.
Psychologically Relevant Mechanism of Empowerment and Resilience in LGBT Individuals Podkrajsek R.
Queering Research. Critical research methodologies from Peer to peer perspective. Berna D., Herrero E., Villaamil F., Jerez A.
Transgender identities in Italy: between structural stigma and European pressures Amodeo A.L., Picariello S., Scandurra C., Monaco S., Valerio P.
LGBTQI rights: anti-discrimination policies at the University of Turin Spanò M., Patti V.
Symposium G
NOT ONLY SEXUALITY: MINORITIES, REALITIES AND RESOURCES OF LGBTQI. Intersectionality: Persons with Disability who identify as LGBTQI
Azzopardi Lane C. L.
Psychological support group for parents as intervention tool in the care of families with gender dysphoric children
Caldarera A., Baietto C., Brustia P.
Internalized sexual stigma and psychological well-being: exploratory research on Italian and Belgian gay and lesbian people
Lorenzi G., Miscioscia M., Simonelli A.
Sexual satisfaction individuals with gender dysphoria after sexual reassignment surgery: a case report
Quattrini F., Di Nardo M., Maiella R., Fulcheri M. Place Pedagogies of LGBTQI Empowerment Quilty A.
Symposium H
FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE: THE COMPLEX WAY OF LGBTQI PEOPLE. The Homophobic Discourse Remembering the Authoritarian Personality. A Case Study Barbetta P., Bella A., Barazzetti A.
A Transsexual parent recount his transition Ricci M. E., Mamo F., Miano P.
Gender variance in childhood and adolescence, social inclusion and school drop out: strategies to support psychological wellbeing
Caldarera A., Crespi C., Mineccia V., Finzi S., Molo M. T., Massara D.
... and the daughter said: “Can I call daddy hir? (hir: him plus her)” Petiva P., Spirito M., Ghersi S., Siragusa R.
Exploring the Language of Empowerment from Transphobia to Transpositivity McGarry P.
Symposium I
LGBTQI IN FAMILY, ORGANISATION, WORK PLACE, RELATIONS AND LEGAL WORLD.
Discrimination in the workplace: an empirical study of perceived diversity climate and coming out Ramaci T., Aiello F.
Therapeutic project for integration: a proposal to help the supporting relationship Bechis D., Mancini S., Notari D., Spagna N., Larosa P., Baietto C.
Diversity Media Awards LGBT Representation in the italian Media: from academic research to popularization
Bionda M.L., Vecchioni F.M.A.
Homophobia and transphobia in the italian legal system Potè M.
LGB-silent-T phenomenon in the Irish LGBT Movement Finlay L.
LECTURE
Lingiardi V.1 1
Vittorio Lingiardi, (Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome M.D.), is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, where he was Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program (2006-2013). His scientific and research areas of interest are: a) assessment of personality disorders; b) psychotherapy/psychoanalysis research; c) defense mechanisms; d) therapeutic alliance; e) gender identity and sexual orientation. He is the author of many books and papers. With Nancy McWilliams and Robert Wallerstein he is in the Steering and Scientific Committee of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2, Guilford Press, expected for 2015). With the paper “Psychoanalytic attitudes towards homosexuality: An empirical research” (International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 85, 2004, pp. 137-158) he won the 2004 Ralph Roughton APsaA Paper Award. For Raffaello Cortina Publisher he is Chief Editor of the series “Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy”.
ABSTRACT
«I write poetry because my genes and chromosomes fall in love with young men, not young women». With a single line, the poet Allen Ginsberg upsets centuries of controversy about the role that nature and culture have in the government of our lives. But poets, you know, follow paths erratic and arcane. Ordinary people, sooner or later, ask you the question: “Born that way or become so?” Which means: “Being gay is the ‘psychological’ result of early relational experiences, education and social interactions, or is it a matter of genes and chemistry”. Inevitable question, but wrong. Because it is determined by two prejudices. That we are all born as tabulae rasae, ready to be molded from the outside: education, environment, experiences. Or that we are programmed for specific tastes, desires and behaviors. The error is in the binary approach: nature vs culture, internal vs external, male vs female. It is not only a mistake but also a danger - and even more if we talk about sexuality. An explanatory model cannot be separated from the use we make of it. When Freud shifted our attention from the moral to the psychological, the effect was a breath of fresh air: you can finally talk about sexuality, and not of sin. But then, towards the end of the last century, when a group of biologists shifted our attention from psychology to genetics, many felt a similar liberating effect: “Mom, Dad: It is not your ‘fault’!” After commenting on the more or less convincing aspects of the work of the neuroscientist Simon LeVay, author of “Gay, straight and the reason way”, I will address the issue of sexual orientation as genetically determined trying to catch the psychological, historical, social and political implications of any etiological model of homosexuality. Or, better, homosexualities.
LECTURE
Valerio P.1 1
Paolo Valerio (MD) is Full Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the Delegate of the Rector for students with disabilities, Head of the SInAPSi Centre (www.sinapsi.unina.it), Head of the Service of Clinical Psychology of the Naples University Hospital, President of the Foundation “Genere Identità Cultura” and President of the “Osservatorio Nazionale sull’Identità di Genere” (O.N.I.G.). He has participated in many European projects. Specifically, he was the scientific coordinator of “Hermes – Linking network to fight sexual and gender stigma” (Daphne III). Currently, he is Marie Curie Fellow and a member of the advisory group of the “Empowering LGT young people against violence: a P2P model” (Daphne III).
ABSTRACT
The recent publication of DSM-5 should be considered as a turning point in the redefinition of transgender identity condition, in particular of its new psychiatric diagnosis “Gender Dysphoria”. For the first time, the Gender Identity Disorder Workgroup involved transgender NGOs around the world before making important theoretical changes. The main doubt dealt with the usefulness and the sense of maintaining such a diagnosis. At the same time, the board of directors of WPATH encouraged the de-psychopathologisation of gender variance worldwide, looking at the phenomenon as culturally common and human. Although the external and political pressures, the psychiatric diagnosis still exists and such a pathologisation may cause social stigma and rejection. Unfortunately, gender variant people – beyond the “psychiatric stigma” – represent a highly stigmatized population, experiencing high levels of minority stress. In a chain, this particular stress may impact their mental health status, increasing the likelihood of developing anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal ideation. Gender variant people generally live within a transphobic environment that facilitates the internalization of social stigma, developing shame, self-hatred and alienation. They have to cope with these negative events and self-devaluating images much more than a not gender variant person.
This contribution will provide a general overview of the actual socio-political condition lived by gender variant people, in particular embracing the psychological effects of gender prejudice and anti-transgender violence on mental health and wellbeing and the resilience strategies they may use to cope with.
GENDER VARIANT PEOPLE BETWEEN PATHOLOGISATION, SOCIAL STIGMA AND RESILIENCE
Symposium A
EMPOWERING LGT YOUNG PEOPLE AGAINST VIOLENCE: A PEER TO PEER MODEL
Rollè L.1, Marino E., Gerino E., Brustia P. 1
Luca Rollè is psychologist, psychotherapist and assistant professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Department of Psychology – University of Torino. He is the Principal Investigator of the project “EMPOWERING LGT YOUNG PEOPLE AGAINST VIOLENCE: A PEER TO PEER MODEL” and he has been involved in other EU project with the role of researcher or supervisor. His researches are focalized on: homo-trans/phobia, sexual identity, domestic violence, postnatal depression in a perspective of Health and wellbeing. He has been trainer in the programmes of the project and he is Aggregate Professor of “Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities” at the Department of Psychology and he is member of the board “Psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities” of the Register of Piemonte Psychologist.
ABSTRACT
The EU FR Agency reported that LGBT people and heterosexual youth not conforming to stereotypical gender expressions and behaviour experience harassment, bullying and discrimination, facing in some cases violent physical attacks (FRA 2009, 2012); the victims may experience a strong disempowerment that leads to social isolation, psychological stress, reduction of self-esteem and coping strategies (Herek, 2009). The present 24 month project aims to integrate the experiences and best practice of 3 projects realized within the European Union’s FRC and DAPHNE III programme.
The main goals of the project has been to increase the empowerment, using a P2P approach, of young LGBTQ people to protect themselves and their peers against violence and to create a safe space for these youths by working with various service providers increasing the awareness about homo/trans-phobic attitudes (Rollè, Brustia, Caldarera, 2014) and to highlight the issues of minority stress (Meyer, 1995), as recommended by the European Commission (2012/3). The intervention-research design of our project – funded by the European Commission under the Daphne III [JUST/2011-2012/DAP/AG/3059] aims at achieving progress in attaining the priority “Empowerment work at grass-roots level”, also through the involvement of local NGOs. Participants: young LGBTQ people (18yo-M 30yo), service providers and helping professionals of the nations of each partner. The used methodology has been P2P approach as a mean to achieve empowerment and knowledge through a three-steps programme: 1. Empowering young LGBTQ impacted, in some way, by homophobic or transphobic; 2. Training various types of helping professionals and service providers to increase knowledge of violence against young LGBTQ people, and skills necessary to work with them effectively; 3. Empowering some of LGBTQ people through training to become facilitators. The project involves 2 partners from IT, ES, SI, UK, IE, different countries with a different level of awareness on sexual identity, homo/trans-phobia, in order to enhance an improvement and harmonization of knowledge, technical skills and culture at a European level. All programmes have been evaluated with a quali-quantitative measures to highlight the process and the outcome of the programm
Quilty A.
Aideen Quilty is director of the Women’s Studies Outreach Programme at the School of Social Justice, University College Dublin. Her research is focused on developing geographies of space and place within higher education. Her most recent work seeks to combine feminist and spatial theories and practices with the aim of articulating place pedagogies for community-based higher education and disenfranchised groups included LGBTQI. She locates her undergraduate and post-graduate teaching as a form of critical civic practice and is committed to promoting educational access and participation for traditionally under-represented groups.
ABSTRACT
The Dublin contribution to this symposium reflects our involvement with a European DAPHNE project working with young (18-30 year) LGBTQ adults on an empowerment programme aimed at targeting homophobic and transphobic violence. As the team responsible for Programme One this presentation sets out the rationale behind this particular educational LGBTQ intervention. Seeking to explore the relationship between non-normative identities, homophobia/transphobia, activism and socio-political contexts and empowerment and resilience this programme drew on the rich history of new left social movements, including feminism, as we sought to chart a pathway to the current reality for LGBTQ lived lives. Acknowledging the real difficulties and multiple forms of discrimination faced by LBTQ people this programme sought to harness the well documented levels of LGBTQ resilience and strength. Reflecting this aim the participants developed personal empowerment plans over the course of the programme. We hope to share something of these individually designed plans as we seek to articulate the dynamics of empowerment and resilience that gained articulation within this innovative, challenging programme.
Amodeo A. L., Scandurra C., Picariello S.1, Rodriguez E., Monaco S., Valerio P. 1
Simona Picariellois a Clinical Psychologis, PhD candidate in Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences and trainee in Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for developmental age, adolescence and couple. She is been a short-term scholar at the “Center for Family Studies” of the University of Miami (October 2013-April 2014). She is a member of “Empowering LGT young people against violence: a P2P model” (Daphne III). She is a member staff of “Disguise Ritual Music – DRUM” (7th Framework Programme Marie Curie Actions – People – IRSES). She participated in Erasmus Program (LLP) at Universidad de Sevilla (2009/2010).
ABSTRACT
Aims: The Programme 2 of the Project, entitled “Power To Promote. LGBTQI Empowerment”, was aimed at training different professionals and public service providers on theoretical references and direct practice of the work with LGBTQI people. Specifically, the main purpose of the training programme was to improve their (a) knowledge on gender and sexual violence against young LGT people, (b) awareness of the impact of the violence on young LGT people, (c) relational and communicational skills.
Themes: The major topics addressed in the programme, both through theoretical and practical sessions and activities were: identity and sexual orientation; phobia and stigma; sexism, heterosexism, and cissexism; minority stress; gender-queer theory; stigmatization in workplace; history of LGBT movement; empowerment and resilience; communication skills; project ideations and development.
Materials: According to the purpose of the Programme, participants were provided with theoretical materials and, above all, they were directly involved in active learning during the training sessions. The main materials used by all the partners of the project have been: exercises on empathy and communication skills; videos and short movies; products from previous projects on the same matters; focus groups.
Manual: The Manual of this Programme is intended to provide a theoretical and pedagogical framework for a work on LGBTQI issues in different contexts and with different addressees. It constitutes a useful booklet where all the themes addressed by the programme are explained, in a concise and clear form, which can be used by any training and educational figure.
Cabezas González A.1, Barón VioqueS.2, Martinez Valle C., Cairo Carou H., Lois M. 1
Almudena Cabezas Gonzàlez PhD, Politics. She is an associate professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology (UCM), Spain. Her research is focus on Geography of regionalism and Feminist Geopolitics, Transnationalism and Gender. As visitor professor she has been in universities of Europe, Latin America and United.
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Susana Barón Vioque. Psychologist (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1990-1995), Master in Educational Guidance at the Universidad de Alcalá (1999-2000), Counselor at the Psycho pedagogical guidance and evaluation team at Pozuelo (2001-2003) and at the Guidance Department at IES.E.Patarroyo since 2003, where she carries out a plan for the prevention of homophobia in the educational system.
Associated Professor at the Department of Basic Psychology since 1996, her researches focus on the creation of a theoretical model to explain basic psychological processes involved in the learning and maintenance of homophobic behaviors.
ABSTRACT
The article presents the p2p model to empower LGTB young people as the final programme of the Empowering young lgtb realities in Europe project. We address first the methodology focus in the possibilities to empower young LGTB people using the p2p model. There is a reflection on power management in the p2p models, the relevance of empathy and trust in order to generate appropriate environment to manage assertiveness, confidence and so on.
There is a brief comparative exercise in the development of the programme for each country team in order to present continuities, difference and particularities by context. Last, there is general comments on potentialities and risk on the
use of p2p model to fight the heteropatriarchal violence.
4. Waves of Change: peer to peer. About Resistance and strategies at the hetero-patriarchal violence in youth
Ramon S.1,Warrener J. 1
Shula Ramon is a social worker and a clinical psychologist by her training, who has researched and published extensively recovery from mental ill health and domestic violence, often involving people who use services as co-researchers and co-trainers. In doing so, she has learned that providing opportunities for stigmatised people to become more empowered and resilient is a key to their ability to move from internalising their stigma to becoming survivors and reclaiming their agency. She has acted as the senior researcher in the LGBT project in the UK, having the overall responsibility for the evaluation aspect of the project.
ABSTRACT
The project Empowering young LGBT adults: a P2P model has attempted to provide opportunities of reclaiming identity via three educational programmes. Programmes 1 aimed at fostering empowerment and resilience strategies for young adults to be applied in their everyday and professional lives. The evaluation aimed to discover if this educational route has successfully achieved its aim across the six participating sites, by focusing on both outcomes and processes, and on a comparison of where participants were at the pre-programme stage, immediately after the programme, and at the follow up stage.
The methodological framework of multiple embedded case studies was adopted. Several methods were applied to measure change, including individual self-reports, intersubjective focus group discussions, and responses to hypothetical case scenarios of complex situations. Data collected included expectations from the programmes and whether these were met, views about what was of significance in the programmes, and the impact they had on the participants’ lives. The quantitative data was analysed with the use of SPSS, the qualitative data was thematically analysed with NVivo software. Ensuring the meaning was sufficiently similar across five cultures was also a demanding task.
The findings highlight an increased appreciation of the participants’ own abilities to respond constructively to the social challenges they faced, and apply the newly acquired reflective understanding to themselves and to others in a more empowering way than before. The solidarity and openness which developed in the first programme were in evidence in the second programme for participants which focused on developing their co-facilitation skills of similar, future, groups indicating the beginning of the development of their resilience capacity. These are promising beginnings, which require further nurture in a future context that is often re-testing their newly acquired empowerment and resilience.
5. Evaluating the effectiveness of fostering empowerment and resilience strategies by young LGBT adults in a European action research
Dobnik B.
Bogdan Dobnik is a member of the Scientific Council for Social Welfare of the Ministry of Social Affairs and member of the Interministerial Commission for granting the status of humanitarian organizations in Slovenia. He is also Slovenian representative in the CARe Europe Until recently he was a member of the Managing Committee of the National Forum of Slovenian humanitarian organizations. Lately, he is particularly actively involved in preventive activities to strengthen children's mental health, activities to raise public awareness on the issue of suicide and campaigns for destigmatisation of mental disorders.
ABSTRACT
By definition dissemination means to broadcast a message to the public without direct feedback from the audience. In terms of project implementation the disseminations is one of the key activities of project partners to inform the public about the project, its progress and results and to create circumstances to support the sustainability of the project results. The dissemination plan was envisaged in a way to efficiently approach a wide public and to instigate a dialogue with the public. The dissemination activities of the project were very carefully reviewed and planned according to up-to-date principles and guidelines. The whole process of dissemination of the project and its results was set up as a process of classical brand building, presenting a sensitive, innovative, creative, subtle, socially oriented and vital brand. The entire campaign originated from the project graphic image, working towards a graphically coherent external communication which evolved into different forms of dissemination materials, such as e.g. promotional leaflets, web site, presence in the most popular social networks (e.g. facebook) etc. Using the most innovative trends in marketing to bring the Empowering LGT Young People Against Violence project closer to the target public should not be understood as superficial, content-diminishing or quality-decreasing gesture, but as an added value of the project to have the know-how to deliver its results to the key stakeholders and to bring it to their attention.
Symposium B
CREATING AWAERENESS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA: PATHS, PROJECTS, STUDIES AND EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES
Truppa G.1, Emprin R. 1
Gianluca Truppa. Graduated in Politics, attended a post-graduate specialisation course in Equality and Discrimination at the University of Milan. Works as project officer and trainer for the LGBT Office of the City of Torino since 2010. Represents the City of Torino in the International Rainbow Cities Network.
ABSTRACT
Since it was founded in 2001 the LGBT Office of the City of Torino works closely with Institutions, University, companies and NGOs at local and national level to develop joint actions aiming at improving quality of life for LGBT citizens in Torino and elsewhere. Training and networking are the main tasks assigned to the Office by the Administration. The presentation will focus on training and raising awareness activities carried out in education and safety in relation to LGBTQI young people.
Schools, Youth from Voluntary Service and local Police officers were the main targets of trainings hereby presented. Providing teachers with tools for including LGBT issues in their lectures helps them to combat prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. Activities carried out in schools by teachers with their students and respective families on LGBT topics improve safety of LGBTQI students indoor and outside by strengthening inclusion in the peers group and rejection of homo/transphobic bullying.
Coherently with the City of Torino policy on equality in public service delivering, young people taking part in the Voluntary Services within the Administration are trained on LGBT topics. Training represents a mutual learning for the peers’ group and an occasion for some of the beneficiaries coming from non-European continents (mainly Africa, Southern America, Asia) to confront with diversity and to inter-relate discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity with other grounds of discrimination (sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief etc.).
City of Torino Police is the local symbol of law enforcement institution for young citizens in streets, schools, university, various locations. From several years proximity policing programmes include meetings of police officers with students in schools to raise awareness on safety, discrimination, bullying, violence. Trainings to police officers on LGBT hate speech and hate crimes carried out by the LGBT Office with local NGOs were essential to support local Police officers and include homophobic and transphobic bullying among subjects discussed with students in classrooms and encourage the latters to report.
Training of teachers, school administration and Police officers on LGBT topics is crucial to develop a safer and inclusive environment for LGBTQI young people and their families in the city.
1. Local policies for LGBTQI young people equality and safety: the city of Torino LGBT office experience
Gullotta A.1, Gerino E.2 1
Alessandro Gullotta is doctor of psychological science, with a thesis about family cooperation in the care of Hikikomori adolescent psychopathology; his research interests deal with childhood and adolescence psychopatologies, parenting and caregiving, attachment and identity, sexual orientation and sexual identity issues in childhood and adolescence, parenting system and heteronormativity. He is trainee to the teaching post of prof. Luca Rollè and partner of the group of dynamic psychology at the department of Psychology of the University of Turin.
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Eva Gerino is psychologist, PhD in Psychological, Anthropological and Educational science, Psychoterapist trainee and partner of the group of dynamic psychology at the department Of Psychology of the University of Turin. She is now Contract Professor in family dynamics and her research interests deal with LGBTQI issues and dynamics in a perspective of Health and wellbeing, coming out and LGBTQI people path in family system, family and couple dynamics, LGBTQI themes in an aging contest.
ABSTRACT
Discriminatory attitudes in relation to gender and sexual orientation are even more evident within family interactions and in the managing of parenting and caregiving dynamics. These processes contribute to the development of significant changes in the children and adolescents’ identity structure, changes that, expose children to strong behavior and identity influences. The discriminatory attitudes, especially homophobic or transphobic behaviours, intensify in children’s minds, combining with other typologies of discrimination, such as all that can differ from the “rule”.
This project has the aim of sensitizing in an active way children and their families on these themes, in particular, encouraging the reduction of prejudicial, stereotyped playful modes addressed to younglings, promoting the free expression of individual differences in a motivating, serene environment, proposing a cooperative, community atmosphere among different people, supporting the sharing of these differences at the expense of a sort of ratification by the in-group. Moreover, the project focuses on the remodeling of parenting and caregiving approaches, together with family upbringing, which are often characterized by heteronormative, sexist models.
In order to reach the above-mentioned objects, we suggest the use of fairy tales so that children could be better involved and we could be really nearer to them. We thought about a set of recreational-educational, creative activities and role-playing, within the frame of the most popular animation movies, welcome to the youngest, aimed at the learning and awareness of discriminatory attitudes. Each activity contains an implicit message as to invite to a critical reflection and to produce a different point of view of the family and the child.
At the end of the activities, in fact, children and their families should gain a greater sensitivity to these issues, having been in contact, through these recreational but concrete experiences, with the possible consequences of the discriminatory process.
Montabone M.
Monica Montabone. Systemic psychologist psychotherapist began working in the late 90 in psychiatric rehabilitation and founded the Cooperativa Sinapsi and being among the first members of the Association Casa Bordino of Turin. Since then deals with families and the rights of people in difficulty, becomes therapist in 2000 and teacher of psychotherapy at Episteme and begins to deal with LGBT parenting, deepening the themes of prejudice and stereotypes. Manages groups of students psychotherapists in particular on the issues of disability and families. Meanwhile also deals with school dropout working with the Province of Turin with more than 200 children a year and families in need. She has a private practice of systemic therapy relational ago supervisions and collaborates with COREP for master's degrees in psychology of disability.
ABSTRACT
This work intends to show a networking project aimed at increasing awareness and activating inclusive practices related to homoaffection and homoparenting in Susa Valley Communities.
Cultural change is seen as the result of participation and co-management activities among all the involved actors. The project, realized in a systemic perspective, involved many speakers (teachers, Municipalities, parents' associations). The shared participation among the actors created a program addressed to the whole community and, at a later stage, to teachers, non-teaching school personnel, educators, parents, primary and secondary school students. The project, that still continues, is structured in four stages: increasing awareness among the population and parents, above all; increasing awareness among teachers, educators, non-teaching school personnel; working in the field with students; evaluation.
Starting by calling into question prejudices and stereotypes about family and gender roles, we initiated the co-construction of a different way of thinking about affection, where diversity is a resource for creative thoughts and practices. The public debate was extremely participated and it was very appreciated by the entire community; many requests for new meetings arrived from the neighboring municipalities. Within the school, inclusion programs were built by means of specific trainings on homo-affection, family models and homophobic bullying led by trainers from the LGBT association and the psychologist.
Famiglie Arcolabaleno (Rainbow families) and adoptive parents presented their experiences. This practice resulted in theatre plays performed by the students. Together with the teachers, we drafted a chart of young people rights that illustrates the practices for fighting homophobic bullying. It was adopted by the whole school institute.
The project was the beginning of a consideration about the beauty of diversity and homoparenting families' rights in the perspective of preventing violence against LGBT young people and families.
Taurino A.1, De Caro M., Greco R., Serino C., 1
Taurino A. Assistant professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bari.
Main research interests: sexuality; gender identity; sexual orientation; homosexuality; same-sex and transsexual parenting; homophobia and trans-phobia; interventions to prevent and combat homophobia and trans-phobia in educational, academic and institutional contexts. He is the author of two books on psychology of gender differences and of many articles on national and international journals on the topic of same-sex parenting and theoretical models /epistemological constructs for the deconstruction of homophobic prejudice and violence.
ABSTRACT
In a systemic perspective, the homophobic bullying can be considered as the outcome of prejudicial believes about sexual orientation linked to a dysfunctionality of inter-subjective systems that organize the relationships among students. Based on this approach, we structured a wide action-research program aimed at improving the quality of relationships in the school. The project is focused on the construction of a specific network (constituted by the University of Bari, The Regional Education Office of Apuglia, the Provincial Student Council of Secondary Schools of Bari’s and BAT provinces).
The project was divided into two phases. In the first phase, 150 students from different Secondary Schools were recruited to participate to an intensive peer-education training course related to homophobic bullying, aiming at detecting and reducing peer victimization among adolescents. They took part in three focus group and training sessions about the quality of relationships in their contexts; they were involved also in a discussion aimed at the construction of a specific questionnaire to be administered in each school. Later (the second phase) they became the tutors of their class-mates when these were required to fulfil the individual questionnaire by an online procedure set up in each school. In the second phase we administered a questionnaire which detected the ways in which the bullying phenomenon occurs within the school, involving a sample of 9.000 students. The students answered a number of questions concerning their experience in the school, their role in possible bullying dynamics, and their opinions as to the reasons for bullying, to the more frequent victims’ social categories and so on. Particular attention was paid to homophobic bullying and to the students’ cultural models regarding homosexuality and sex and gender stereotypes.
Results were analysed by considering the effect of some critical variables (gender, kind of school, different social contexts, and so on) and the correlation among several forms of peer victimization. Starting from the results, a number of psychological activities was set up in different school communities involved in the present study. Empowering strategies of peer education and action research were then generated in the frame of our project, in order to prevent and reduce bullying behaviours, while developing more positive interpersonal/intergroup relationships, and more inclusive cultural models of sexuality to promote a culture of differences in the schools. In our contribution the project will be presented and the results will be discussed in more details.
4. A project of intervention against homophobic bullying to support the quality of relationships in the schools
Symposium C
GENDER STEREOTYPES, HETERONORMATIVITY AND HETEROSEXISM: GROUPS, INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES
Rollero C.1, De Piccoli N. 1
Chiara Rollero earned her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Turin (Italy). Her research interests deals with gender issues, stereotypes, objectification processes, mass media and well-being from a gender perspective. She has more than thirty international research publications on these topics. Now she is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University eCampus (Italy), where she teaches Social Psychology.
ABSTRACT
Introduction and Aim
Objectification is a specific form of dehumanization by which individuals are conceived and treated as objects and instruments. Literature on objectification has largely shown the relationship between viewing objectified media models and women’s body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. The purpose of the present study was to extend past research by examining the effects of objectified media images – considering both male and female models - on the endorsement of sexist attitudes.
Method
Participants were 166 heterosexual undergraduates (51.8% male). Each participant was randomly assigned to view one of three advertisements sets (objectified male condition, objectified female condition, and control condition). Then their ambivalent sexism toward men and women was assesses.
Results
Findings showed that objectification of women affects men’s endorsement of sexist attitudes, increasing hostility toward women and decreasing hostility toward men. Instead, women’s sexist stereotypes were not influenced by objectification. Discussion
For men, the objectification of women seems to increase the endorsement of an explicit adversarial view of women, i.e. hostile sexism, but it reduces the expression of resentment toward gender power inequalities, i.e. hostility toward men. Concerning women, in line with the Ambivalent Sexism Theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), we can argue that objectified women emphasize their sexual allure, which can be seen as a way to control men, but to reinforce gender stereotypes. Taken together, present results provide additional evidence to suggest that objectified media models may contribute to origin sexist attitudes, although specific for each gender.
Falletti E.
Elena Falletti. Full-tenured assistant professor of Comparative Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University “Carlo Cattaneo” Castellanza (VA). She carried out her PhD in Comparative Law at the University "State" in Milan in 2006. When she was Phd candidate she was DAAD Stipendiatin and Marie Curie Fellow at the Westfälische Wilhelm-Universität Münster (Germany). After that, she gained a post - doctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institut für Geistiges Eigentum of Munich (Germany).
ABSTRACT Introduction and aim
The aim of this abstract is to analyze the text of legal decisions in comparative family law, focusing on English and Italian case law for veryfing the presence of gender stereotypes. The main area of interest is the different approach to the evolution of family law, especially to the traditional gender roles: male-female, husband-wife, father-mother. Method
Indeed, on the one hand the English legal system granted protection to traditional families and also to new family models such as “rainbow families” (formed by same-sex parents) and extended families (formed by new families of divorced parents). How do English judges face this kind of cultural changement in justifying their decisions? On the other hand the Italian Parliament does not grant legal recognition for all families in front of law equally. However, both first instance and appeal courts are try to recognize equal treatment for parents and children without discrimination from the parent's gender. How are Italian judges able to overcome the limits such legislative perspective?
Result
Analyzing the grounds of the judgments in an area with a strong influence of political, philosophical, religious and social issues as family law, we find that stereotypes, especially gender stereotypes, could hide themselves behind apparently neutral concepts. But what is a “stereotype”? Especially a “gender stereotype”? It concerns the sex of a person, especially his or her failure to conform with socially accepted sexual behaviour about what “real” men or women do or don't do.
Discussion
Finally, the paper should suppose which role have stereotypes in both legal systems.
2. Legal reasoning and gender stereotypes in the case law from a comparative family law perspective
Urea R.
Roxana Urea is working at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences since 1996. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology since 2003 and two master degrees .She is an expert: in child’s psychodiagnosis, in educational and professional guidance and work capacity assessment, in human resources, in psychological and political marketing, in family counselling of persons with disabilities, in psychology of maladjustment and behavioural deviance, in special education of people with mental disabilities. She is an active representative of Romanian psychology abroad on congresses and conferences in psychology and education field.
ABSTRACT Introduction and Aim
In sense of W. Lippmann 1922, the stereotype affects judgment imposing itself to current reality. An essential aspect of gender stereotype is that man learns to associate various personal attributes, such as personality traits, roles and professions, with being male or female. Beyond those features by definition related genus (eg mother or father to be), there is a low probability to talk about a politician who is a woman and to associate automatically her features to a set of instrumental traits (aggressiveness, competitiveness, courage, strength, etc.) that inherent belong to a man. The presence of women in political structures exists in Romanian society, but there is still the belief that involvement in political structure is "bypassed" by female population. Social psychology offers an explanation for this, linking aspirational level success with perception of chances of success, perception which is "directed" by gender stereotypes and still "validated" by Romanian society.
The aim
In the present study I will seek to identify whether the policies are still being described / perceived by feminine representatives, in masculine terms.
Method
I used the Romanian Gender Scale Attributes (internal consistency index =. 749, fidelity index= .794,) and Romanian Gender Roles Inventory (internal consistency index =. 757, fidelity index= .826,)
Lot of research
The research was done on 167 female students: 96 coming from different departments of University of Bucharest (57, 48%) – and 71 coming from different departments of Polytechnic University (42,52%) ; 91 % are coming from urban environment and 9% from rural environment.
Results
We found a specific gender stereotypes typology related to perceptual distortions in political area Discussion
There are differences between the perceptual distortions in political area at students coming from different departments of University of Bucharest comparing with those who are coming from Polytechnic University
4. On sexuation: how psychoanalysis can contribute to break with the idea of sexual norm
Bolgiani P.
Paola Bolgiani is psychotherapist-psychoanalyst, member of the Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi and Word Associa-tion of Psychoanalysis, professor at the Istituto Psicoanalitico di Orientamento Lacaniano (Turin) and Istituto freudiano (Rome, Milan), institutes for the specialization of psychotherapists. She works since 2000 at the Centro Psicoanalitico di trattamento dei malesseri contemporanei (Turin). She’s clinical Director of an therapeutic institution for children and young adults (near Vercelli).
She has published several articles in magazines of psychoanalysis. Some articles have been translated in French, Spanish and English.
ABSTRACT
Introduction and Aim
Freud claimed that "anatomy is destiny". However, in his later works, inquiring about female sexu-ality, he introduces new ideas that will bring Jacques Lacan to open a new horizon around the ques-tion of sexuality. Lacan overthrow Freud's statement. He noticed also that the fact of leaving the issue of sexuality on a strictly anatomical level, led not only to difficulties in the clinic, but also left the subjects at the mercy of anxiety, sometimes dramatic, about the its supposed "normality". The purpose of this report is to show how, through the introduction by Lacan categories of imaginary, symbolic and real, all three involved in the sexual position of each subject in terms of body image, inscription in the symbolic world, and enjoyement, we can be oriented in contemporary clinical, considering each subject as a singular exception.
Method
The research is carried through the study of clinical cases encountered in practice as a psychoana-lyst, both private and at the Centro Psicoanalitico di trattamento dei malesseri contemporanei onlus
Results
We emphasize that each person must find their own way to deal with what sexuality exceeds the size of the image and the symbolic, and that concerns the specific way of enjoyment, through a "bricolage" of its own.
Discussion
The contribution of Lacan in the field of psychoanalysis allows to consider the specific way in which each subject is related to sex, breaking with any idea of normality or sexual norm, and instead putting in value the singular choices.
Lloyd M.
Michele Lloyd lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She combines work on undergraduate and doctoral programmes with doctoral supervision and research. She has published research nationally and internationally on education policy, special educational needs, long-term health conditions, schizophrenia, domestic violence and media representations. Her research interests include educational inequality, neoliberal ideology, poverty, social justice, multimedia communication and human rights.
ABSTRACT
This paper examines quantitative data derived from participants across the six partner sites engaged in the P2P project. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.
Firstly, young people undertaking Programme 1 gave their responses to a 14-item resilience scale (‘The Resilience Scale’ is an international trademark of Gail M. Wagnild & Heather M. Young, 1993). Cross-national findings were analysed at the pre, post and follow-up stages to evaluate evidence of change. Increases in self-belief, determination and feeling proud of accomplishments indicate the programme had a positive effect on young people’s sense of self-confidence and empowerment. The rise in the number of young people who agreed their life had meaning is further evidence of enhanced resilience amongst some participants.
Additionally young people responded to a 42-item scale asking about their experiences within the LGBT community and sense of their own identity. Following their engagement in the programme young people reported feeling less judged by others for their sexual orientation, and were less likely to feel isolated and separate from other LGBT people. So too were they less likely to feel uneasy around people being very open in public about their sexual orientation. Quantitative data were also generated from professionals and service providers undertaking Programme 2. They were provided with a vignette scenario and asked to indicate their strength of feeling towards 20 listed reactions. Responses were amenable to quantification and were analysed cross-nationally. Again, pre- and post-programme findings were compared in order to measure change over the time span of the training programme. While data analysis demonstrates considerable congruity of opinion, interesting variations among a minority of participants are also revealed. Differences as well as commonalities among participant responses are discussed.
5. Painting by numbers: examining participants’ quantitative responses at pre, post and follow-up programme data collection stages concerning the impact of the P2P project
Symposium D
SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND SEXUAL IDENTITY: CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND STUDY CASES
Nicotra M.
Maria Nicotra, psychoanalist, psychoterapist.
She is cooperating teacher at Istituto Psicoanalitico di orientamento Lacaniano (IPOL),Turin. Member of Scuola Lacaniana di Psiconanalisi and Ass. Mondiale di Psicoanalisi.
Psychotherapist at Spo.t, a project of Maurice LGBTQ (Turin) and at Rete Dafme, a project for offense victims. She is clinical director at La Cittadella (Saluggia), an institution for young people with neurodegenerative diseases and seniors. Among other publications she is author of essays on gender and transgender issues. She has directed documentaries on LGBTQI realties among which: TransAzioni on FTM trans- reality (2004) .
ABSTRACT
Introduction and aim
The theme of transexuality and transgenderism mobilize on the cultural, social, health and legal fields. In the last decades there is a proliferation of researches and theories of transexuality and transgenderism developed by cultural, gender and queer theorists which goes in the direction of the social inclusion and depathologization.
This paper aim to questions some points of the clinical practice with queer and transgender subjects who don’t fit in ‘mainstream’ transexuality.
Method
The research is made through clinical cases matured in the contest of Spo.t, a project of Maurice GLBTQ of Turin which give assistance and services (endocrinologist, psychotherapist, lawyers, social assistance) - a “spot” - also for social inclusion to queer, transgender and transexual people.
Results
By exploring some fragments of clinical cases and referring to lacanian psychoanalytic theory of sexuation and topology (post-structural theory of Lacan) this paper aim to point out which elements are involved in the psychoanalytical treatments with subjects who express a desire to be beyond sex, to belong to neither sex, to transcend the limits of sexual difference.
Discussion
The discussion aims to stress a reflexion regarding the clinic of transsexuality and some crucial notes concerning the medical – legal procedure in Italy that subjects must attain in order to obtain the change of identity in the registry.
Morrone S.
Silvia Morrone psychoanalist, psychoterapist. Teacher at Ipol – Istituto Psicoanalitico di orientamento Lacaniano (Turin). Member of Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi and Associazione Mondiale di Psicoanalisi.
Psychoterapist at Spot, a project of Maurice LGBTQ (Turin). Psychoterapist at Centro Psicoanalitico di trattamento dei malesseri contemporanei (Turin). She is Clinical Director of Comunità Terapeutiche Il Montello (Serravalle Scrivia – Al), an institution for psychiatric patients offenders. In the age ’90 she collaborated with the sexology team of Mauriziano Hospital (Turin)
ABSTRACT Introduction and Aim
According with the international campaign Stop Trans Pathologization, born in 2007, whose goal was the elimination of transsexualism from DSM, the contribution has the aim of highlighting how clinical Lacanian psychoanalysis, with the aim of not pathologize the subject's relationship with his own sexuality, produce subjective space for the construction of life solutions appropriate to the uniqueness of each subject.
Method
The research is made through clinical cases matured in the contest of Spo.t, a project of Maurice GLBTQ of Turin Which give assistance and services (endocrinologist, psychotherapist, lawyers, social assistance). The treatment of the case was driven by the Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. This is a clinica-sotto-transfert, in line with other current psychodynamic, it considers diagnostic evaluation as a tool to guide the direction of the treatment and not to categorize and label, as it tends to make the scientific discourse through the DSM.
Results
In Lacanian psychoanalytic practice, the results of a carefully take into account, through the transference relationship, the complexity subjective, with particular reference to the relationship of the subject with their own desire and the ability , through the same care , to offer him new possibilities for action and relational strategies allowing more flexible , such as out of isolation, stabilization subjective without recourse to medicalization.
Discussion
Where you free the subject from the stigma of psychiatric pathologisation, open to the possibility of subjects lifestyle choices "in their own way"We can say we have some theoretical references (and not ideological) that allow us to accommodate the singularities without introducing subjective prejudices, but those that we can accommodate any event, as recalled Dr. Lacan, "ignoring what you know"?
2. A psychoanalytical Lacanian clinical contribution against the stigma of pathologization
Florea M.M.1, Vasilescu V.C. 1
Mihnea-Mihail Florea is a young Romanian humans rights activist currently involved in developing the LGBT movement in Bucharest. His previous experience is within the disability sector, with an emphasis on social service delivery and employability issues. He is currently CEO and Funding member of Lindenfeld Association, Fundraiser for Accept Association and Project coordinator for Junior Achievement Romania.
ABSTRACT
While many LGBT subcultures experience specific social angst and discrimination within and outside the community due to social identity, one of the least documented is that of the Chub-Chaser community. The lack of visibility within the LGBT movement and the lack of public awareness regarding this minority isolates it from the mainstream LGBT community, with dire consequences. Thus, there is close to no Chub-Chaser representation within European community organizations and there is close to no knowledge base regarding anti-discrimination and empowerment mechanisms for Chub-Chaser youth, despite specific needs regarding self-identity. More often than not, the self-disclosure of their non-normative sexual orientation and identity is seen as a second-coming out for individuals, resembling the identity crisis found in transgender, transsexual, and intersex people.
Community wise, European development of the Chub-Chaser movement is still not well established in time. Regardless, development signs of this subculture in Europe can be seen with the emergence of specific internet groups and social clubs spawning across Europe, usually in the more international urban areas: Madrid, Berlin, London. The current paper supports the academic effort to further understand the wide classifications within the Chub-Chaser community - from a self-image and sexual behavior point of view - and to reveal it's inner dynamics and how individuals and groups relate to the wider LGBT movement. Perceived discrimination, in various forms, are analyzed based on quantitative and qualitative research methods, with a focus on crossdicrimnation. The data will be based on over 100 survey responses from individuals identifing within the Chub-Chaser community coming from over 10 European countries,as well as 5 in-depth interviews with relevant repesentatives.
Conclusions will be drawn with respects to improving the approach towards self-identifying Chub-Chaser youth in the context of personal development and social inclusion within and out of the LGBT community.
3. Multicausal discrimination: sexuality and social dynamics of European chub and chasers
Andrés T.1, González-Teruel A. 1
Tabatha Andrés is a student of the Degree in Information and Documentation. She collaborates in the company Unitat Web i Marketing of the University of Valencia, where she carries out tasks as information, web content manager and documentalist. She is a volunteer in the group Lambda Valencia.
ABSTRACT Introduction and Aims
The studies on information behaviour seek to know why people need, and use information, both in their work environment and in their daily life. Studying these aspects in populations whose life situations may be classified as transitional, it is of a special relevance as far as the information systems planned may serve as a support for individuals in that situation. A clear example is the one that LGBT teenagers in the process of discovering their sexuality are living. The objective was to know the experiences which gave place to their information behaviour.
Method
A qualitative explorative study was designed and interviews to a group of people selected according to a non-probabilistic sampling of convenience were led. The population of interest was anyone between 18 to 30 years old included in the group. The information obtained was analysed through a quantitative analysis of content.
Results
The data obtained described three aspects: a) Personal circumstances and development which includes how they accepted their orientation and identity; b) Mechanisms used by informants to look up information; and c) Opinions on useful improvements for the LGBT youngsters.
Discussion and conclusion
The identification and acceptance process was produced at early ages. Informants turned to a person who could provide them with information and support, that is, a mentor. As for the type of information sought, among men the search for sexual partners predominates whereas in the case of transsexuals’ information needs, these needs disappear after the surgery. The society is considered “out of the closet” but the information LGBT is not visualised properly, due to prejudices or ignorance. It is important to obtain qualitative data in order to understand the interaction of LGBT people with the information in the different situations of life.
Arzente G.F.
Gian Francesco Arzente psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. Member of the School of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Founding member of the Center spicoanalitico treatment of illnesses contemporary non-profit organization of Turin and psychotherapist at the therapeutic community Montello. Professor IPOL.
ABSTRACT
The work that I wish to expose is the result of my experience as a psychotherapist at the Psychoanalytic Center of
treatment of illnesses daily. It provides, in its Section Insecurity, the possibility of conducting the talks free for a
specified time. The therapeutic aim is to reach, in the shortest possible time, to obtain the rapid therapeutic effects. First of all, is to isolate what hurts the subject, that is generally the effect of trauma entered unconscious in the particularity of the subject. Since opening, 15 years ago, many of the subjects that you have turned, at least 100, we have crossed the threshold from a problem related to homosexuality. Each of these subjects showed a crucial moment, one in which the other has been reduced to a mere object mistreated, humiliated, devalued. Although the phenomenology of the episode varies, the structure remains the same: a representative of authority (father, semblances male) mistreats his son or daughter in the time of formation of the Oedipus and it produces an identification imaginary powerful to strict and violent “father”. Happen that they recognize that it has inflicted on the partner the same fate of humiliation and abuse that had hit the subject at the time of their being humiliated lived in 'childhood. When the subject is unable to say what he did suffer the partners is related to the traumatic moment he himself lived in childhood emerges the possibility that the patient takes responsibility for the suffering of another. If therapist is in time with the patient's insight interpreting him his identification with his father, it produces a therapeutic gain considerable with the immediate effect being able to finally communicate their sexual selection. Follows a clinical vignette.
Symposium E
LGBTQI LIVES, IDENTITIES, EXPERIENCES AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS.
Bertone C.
Chiara Bertone Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in Sociology of the Family at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy. Her main interests lie in sexuality, family change and family policies, explored from a gender perspective. She is author of the volumes Whose needs? Women’s organisations’ claims on child care in Italy and Denmark (2002) and Le omosessualità (2009), and co-editor of Queerying families of origin (2014).
ABSTRACT
The paper argues for the need to put intergenerational relations into the picture in order to understand the conditions for access to citizenship rights and recognition for non-heterosexual people. The case of Italy, where individual entitlements and responsibilities are largely structured around intergenerational dependence, underlines the importance of this dimension. Based on a study of the families of origin of self-identified young gay men and lesbians carried out in Italy, the paper explores how access to citizenship rights, and the construction of the identities who can claim for recognition, are mediated by processes of mutual disclosure and negotiation within the families. Beyond a shared notion of family ties as defined by unconditional love, a diversity of narratives are detected, linked to differences in gender, class and family cultures. It is especially when family narratives are informed by the middle class ideology of the democratic family as a space for the development of authentic selves that access to rights becomes conditional upon compliance with the obligations of a “good child”, and the conditions for the reproduction of heteronormative citizenship are set. The paper poses a crucial question, asking how alliances along family ties can develop on the basis of shared stories of family diversity and marginalised identities, rather than of loving (and normative) support to LGBT people in need and an advocacy in their name from a position of heterosexual privilege.
